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Eastern Voyages, Western Visions - French Writing and Painting of the Orient (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Eastern Voyages, Western Visions - French Writing and Painting of the Orient (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Strange and exotic, seductive and threatening, the Orient has
always been an enchanted space for the West. But this is a space,
theorists argue, that has been 'Orientalized' by the West,
constructed upon a system of knowledge and power which defines the
West as much as this 'Other'. Within Western cultures, the French
encounter with the Orient has been extraordinarily rich and varied,
from the experiences of the first pilgrims to the challenges posed
for the identity of modern-day France by its ethnic minorities.
This collection of interdisciplinary essays explores the range of
French and francophone encounters with the East from the medieval
period to the present day. The contributions encompass a variety of
Orients, both geographical and generic: the Orients of the visual
arts, of historicist discourse, of fiction and travel writing. They
consider not only those artists we immediately associate with the
East, such as Nerval or Fromentin, but also those, like Proust,
whose work appears firmly rooted in the West. They also provide new
insights into the less familiar works of long-celebrated authors
like Flaubert and more recently acclaimed writers such as Bouvier
and Djebar.
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